Can you hear me? is a game where get only one of your senses: hearing. You are in a place and there's another person speaking to you. Find that person.
The game is just a black screen. Use arrow keys to move around. You hear footsteps when you are moving so that when you don't you know you've hit a wall. TO CLARIFY: When the game starts there is no sound or visuals. Just start walking with arrow keys and you should hear something.
The game is best played with headphones on or with surround speakers. I've only tested with crappy headphones.
There is a bug in the end that causes one sound to keep playing after the game has finished.
Probably only works on latest version of Chrome and on Firefox nightly builds! This due to the use of experimental Web Audio API.
This is my first time attending LudumDare and it was kind of unplanned. That's why I got started in the evening of day one, went to sleep and finished of today. Nowhere near 48 hours used.
Really fun idea and fun to play too ! I like it :) but sometime the sound was just totally missing, I think a possibility of switching between "visual" sound (like shockwave or something like that) and audio can be interesting! Great job !
Forgot to mention that due to the use of Web Audio API only latest Chrome and Firefox nightlies are supported. The "Uncaught TypeError" shouldn't matter. At least for me it didn't. I only had time to test on Chrome.
Check the developer console. Do you get error saying AudioContext is not supported? If so, your browser doesn't support Web Audio API. It seems like Ubuntu version of Chrome has problems with this. =(
Wow, awesome experience! This is best player with closed eyes. This kind of lets me think about, how blind people are experiencing the world. Really great work!
Simple but effective, not knowing what the sounds mean adds a lot to the atmosphere! You can't help wondering what must have happened. I couldn't beat it (and I can't really identify the direction of the sound, but my earphones are very bad). Somehow similar to my own game!
@StMatn Yes, playing eyes closed is my favourite too!
@lilinx It is quite hard to identify the directions. Had no time to tweak the panning system. I think it would be easier with a surround system so that you could hear the front/back difference. Your game seems great! Definitely going to check it out when I get a chance.
@Jerre Any error messages in the console? What browser?
Couldn't finish it, stumbled into a dead end. Interesting experience. Maybe you could consider having some noise right at the beginning just so people know it loaded.
Nice idea, but after exploring the world a bit, being quite systematic, I got the feeling that it was quite the big place. Such that more auditory queues would have been needed to help (e.g. maybe a resonating sound effect depending on the size of the current room).
The map is mostly just corridors, only one or two rooms. But you're right, there should've been more sounds and marker but I didn't have time to do them, unfortunately. =(
Nice idea, but I found there were not enough clues to make sense of it so I was just 'guessing in the dark' and although I tried for quite a long time I didn't feel I'd progressed at all so I just became bored and stopped playing. Sorry :/
Good work though for your first LD especially when you used a lot less than 48 hours!
Love the idea, the sounds were superbly immersive, but it was too hard - felt very lost and not obviously able to locate to sounds / when I did nothing happened that helped me feel I was on the right track. Love the concept though!
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but sometime the sound was just totally missing, I think a possibility of switching between "visual" sound (like shockwave or something like that) and audio can be interesting! Great job !
I heard him say "Thank god you're here, I don't know how long I've been stuck down here", or something along those lines.
This is best player with closed eyes. This kind of lets me think about, how blind people are experiencing the world.
Really great work!
Yes, playing eyes closed is my favourite too!
@lilinx
It is quite hard to identify the directions. Had no time to tweak the panning system. I think it would be easier with a surround system so that you could hear the front/back difference. Your game seems great! Definitely going to check it out when I get a chance.
@Jerre
Any error messages in the console? What browser?
In regard of my game "You only get one Earth", thanks for playing - I've added control tutorial at the top of my entry, hope it will work!
Good work though for your first LD especially when you used a lot less than 48 hours!